Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

G. A. GLAVIN.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

.APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 1e, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented J'u1y75, 1904.

GEORGE A. CLAVIN, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,041, dated July 5, 1904. Application filed January 19,1904. Serial No. 189,706.l (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. CLAvIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Non- Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

Wy invention relates to non-rellable bottles, and has for its objects to produce a simple inexpensive device of this character which in practice will effectually prevent the fraudulent substitution of an inferior grade of material for that originally contained in the bottle.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section through a bottle-neck, showing my improved device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the position of the parts when discharging the liquid. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of parts of the valve.

Referring' to the drawings, 1 designates a bottle, and 2 its neck, these parts being of the usual construction and material, except that the neck of the bottle is formed with an internal circumferential enlargement 3, producing an upper annular shoulder or abutment 4 and a similar lower shoulder or abutment 5.

In accordance with my invention I seat within the neck of the bottle a tubular casing 6, composed of celluloid, hard rubber, metal, or other semi-elastic material, said casing baving terminal enlargements 7 8, which in practice seat, respectively, above and below the abutments 4 5. The casing, the upper end of which is closed, is provided through its side wall adjacent to its upper end with a series of discharge-openings 9 and at its lower end with a plurality of longitudinal slots or incisions 10, constituting discharge-passages and serving to permit suiiicient compression or contraction of the lower end of the casing to allow insertion of the latter into the neck of the bottle. It may here be said that the yieldable nature of the material composing the casing and the provision of the slots 10 permits the head 8 to contract sufciently to pass downward through the reduced portion 3 of the neck, when the head will again expand beneath and in engagement with shoulder 5, the head 7 serving, through its engagement with shoulder 4, to prevent the casing being forced entirely through'the neck. l f

Disposed and fixed within the casing 6 is a valve-seat 11, having' a central discharge-opening, the boundary-walls of which converge downwardly to produce a seating-face 12 for a correspondinglytapered valve 13, which when in seated position prevents introduc-Y tion of liquid into the bottle, but will move freely from its seat to permit the discharge of liquid. Fixed in the upper end of the casing adjacent to the enlargement 7 and at a point above and suitably remote from the seat 11 is a disk or member 14, having a series of passages or openings 15 and a central verticallydepending guide linger or stem 16, which extends into a coincident socket or guideway 17, provided in the valve for guiding the latter in its movements and preventing its complete displacement relative to the seat 11.

In practice the bottle having been lilled with liquor and the valve mechanism introduced into the casing 6 the latter is seated in the manner above described into the neck of the bottle. Under these conditions if it is desired to discharge the contents of the bottle the latter is turned to pouring position, when the Valve 13 will move to the position seen in Fig. 2, thereby permitting free passage of the liquid outward through the various passages above'described When, however, the bottle is tilted upward, the valve will return to its seat, as seen in Fig. l, thereby eifectually closing and preventing the introduction of liquid through the neck-to the bottle. The relative disposition of the openings 9 and 15 is of such character as to prevent the introduction of a wire or other instrument for tampering with the valve. Thus it is apparent that after the contents of the bottle have been discharged the latter cannot be refilled without removing the casing 6, which necessitates breaking the neck, it being understood, however, that by destroying the bottle the valve mechanism may be used repeatedly or, that is, that it may be removed from an empty bottle by breaking' the vnf..."

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neck of the latter and again used in another bottle.

From the foregoing it is obvious that I produce a simple inexpensive device which may be readily and inexpensively applied to the bottles and will in practice etiiciently perform its functions. In attaining' these ends I do not limit myself to the precise details herein set forth, inasmuch as minor changes may be made without departing' from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isrl. The combination with a bottle and its neck, the latter having upper and lower abutments, of a casing having terminal enlargements designed for engagement respectively above and below the abutments, the lower end of the casing being slotted, a valve-seat with- GEORGE A. CLAV IN.

Iitnessesz LEON. N. VVALTHALL, ED GALLAGHER, Jr. 

